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6,000 acres of Bangladesh land, valued at $86.67 million, have been deforested to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees. (United News of Bangladesh)
If a government wants to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing against
an ethnic or religious population, then the old ways that our
grandfathers' generations used are no longer practical. Sending
people to concentration camps and setting up an elaborate
extermination system is way too expensive these days. And starving an
entire population, as Stalin did to the Ukrainians in the 1930s and
Mao did to the Chinese in the Great Leap Forward, could not be kept
hidden from the global media, as it was in those days.
Today's generations of genocidal leaders have new, modern ways for a
government to commit genocide now, and we've seen them practiced in
Syria, Chechnya, Cameroon, and elsewhere. The basic technique is to
make up some excuse to selectively target members of the group to be
exterminated with bombs, missiles, jailings, rape, torture and
slaughter, saying that the people being targeted are ordinary
criminals. Then when activists in the target group do something in
retaliation, then the government can declare the entire target ethnic
group to be terrorists, including women and children, and use massive
force to kill as many of them as possible, and force the rest to flee
to other countries.
These new techniques appear to be spectacularly successful in Myanmar
(Burma).
Since 2011, Burma's mostly Buddhist security forces have been
committing mass atrocities on mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingyas living in
Rakhine State, in what the United Nations says is "a textbook example
of ethnic cleansing," and which some Western governments are calling
genocide. The atrocities by Buddhist security forces include gang
rape, violent torture, execution-style killings and the razing of
entire villages, in a scorched earth campaign.
In August of last year, the Buddhist security forces got the excuse
that they wanted, when a group of activists calling themselves the
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and armed with machetes killed
several Burmese security forces in attacks against 30 Burmese police
outputs. Using this attack as an excuse, the Burmese army began
conducting massive slaughter and atrocities against the Rohingyas,
causing hundreds of thousands to flee across the border into
Bangladesh.
Today, there are about 700,000 Rohingyas living in refugee camps in
Bangladesh -- the world's largest population of stateless people, not
citizens of Burma, not citizens of Bangladesh.
The Buddhist army in Burma burned down Rohingya villages as part of
the atrocities, and after the population left, the army bulldozed the
villages. This was a purposeful act to make it impossible for the
Rohingyas to return.
So you have these farcical situations where Burmese authorities claim
that the Rohingyas burned down their own villages, or even bulldozed
them.
However, in September of last year, BBC reporter Jonathan Head was on
a trip through Rakhine state sponsored by Burma's government. The
reporters were closely monitored by Burmese minders, but he happened
to see smoke rising through the trees and was able to escape his
minder and arrive at the village. He actually interviewed the Buddhists who were burning down the village,
who said that they were helped by the Burmese police. He
was able to see one house after another go up in flames, as the
Buddhists burned them down.
It was really a pathetic sight. And yet we hear from Burmese
officials that the Rohingyas burned down their own villages, and
mainstream media reports dutifully report this as if it were some kind
of reality. That's how far the farce of fake news has gone today.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel prize winner, has played an important
role, a kind of 21st century Hitler. She sweetly tells reporters,
"Oh, it's not so bad" or "No that's wrong, it isn't ethnic cleansing,"
and so Adolf Aung San Suu Kyi Hitler is just part of the genocide
farce. She previously spent several decades under arrest by the army,
but today it seems that the reason they let her go is because she
promised to support the genocide.
Bangladesh and the international community are demanding that the
Rohingyas be permitted to return to their homes in Burma. But of
course that's impossible, since the homes have been burned down and
bulldozed.
In fact, Human Rights Watch has been interviewing Rohingyas who are
newly arrived in Bangladesh. They report that the Buddhist security
forces in Burma are still raping, torturing, mutilating, and killing
Rohingyas.
So the Burmese genocide and ethnic cleansing has been wildly
successful. They "cleansed" the area of hundreds of thousands of
Rohingyas, who will no longer be around to ignore them. It's the
modern way of doing things, and the results speak for themselves.
Reuters and United News of Bangladesh and Dhaka Tribune and Economist
Related Articles:
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**** Syria, Cameroon, Sudan Darfur genocides follow the same pattern
****
Over the past few years, we've reported Generational Dynamics analyses
of countries following exactly the same kind of pattern. The
government targets an ethnic or religious population with rape,
torture, jailings or other violence, in order to provoke some kind of
violent reponse, even an extremely minor one. Once that happens, the
government declares the entire population to be terrorists, and
launches full scale genocide and ethnic cleansing.
After peaceful protests began in Syria in 2011, the country's
president Bashar al-Assad launched air attacks on women and children
in schools and markets. Once there was a violent reaction, al-Assad
could do what he wanted. He began by massacring thousands of innocent
women and children in a Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia in August
2011. He used missiles and barrel bombs, including Sarin gas and
chlorine gas, to kill his hated Sunni enemies, and to destroy their
homes, markets, hospitals and schools. In 2015, Russia's president
Vladimir Putin joined in with his "Grozny strategy," where warplanes
attack hospitals, schools and markets with the objective of creating
millions of refugees, who can then be attacked while they're out in
the open. Between the two of them, al-Assad and Putin have destroyed
and flattened villages and cities, and has forced millions of innocent
Syrian civilians to flee the violence into Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq,
Turkey and Europe. There are six million internally displaced refugees
in Syria, and five million that have fled to other countries, with 3.5
million in Turkey, almost one million in Lebanon, another million in
Iraq and Jordan, and over a million in Europe.
Then, to complete the ethnic cleansing, al-Assad in April passed "Law
#10," which requires anyone wishing to return to Syria to provide
paperwork immediately proving ownership of his or her property. The
obvious intent is to make it impossible for these millions of people
to return to their homes.
In Cameroon, the Francophone (French-speaking) government has used
extremely repressive measures to marginalize the Anglophone
(English-speaking) population in the region known as the Southern
Cameroons. These government atrocities began in November 2016,
when the Francophone
(French-speaking) Cameroon government security forces began beating
and killing peaceful anti-government demonstrators in the South
Cameroons, the Anglophone (English-speaking) regions of Cameroon. The
demonstrators were protesting systematic bias, discrimination and
marginalization towards Anglophones by the Francophone government.
The government got what it wanted in November 2016, when Anglophone
Cameroonians began peaceful protests. The Francophone security forces
began violently attacking Anglophone protesters. In September of last
year, activist separatists began using small bombs to target local
security forces.
The government announced that "President Paul Biya has declared war on
these terrorists who seek secession." In the increasingly violent
Francophone government crackdown that followed, hundreds of people
were arrested, and helicopter gunships were used to fire on innocent
civilians and kill them. At least 5,000 people have fled across the
border to neighboring Nigeria to escape the violence.
Back in 2006, I wrote a generational analysis of the genocide in
Darfur, Sudan, following the statement by UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-Moon, that the Darfur genocide was caused by global warming,
and therefore by America and Europe.
That fatuous reasoning led me to write an extensive generational
analysis of what happened in Darfur, starting in the 1970s and
continuing forward. That analysis is still correct, but I now realize
that a part of it is in exactly the same pattern we've been talking
about in Burma, Syria and Cameroon.
In April 2002, a Darfurian farmer complained to the local authorities
that they were being harassed by a local herder militia group.
Instead of listening, the farmers were jailed. This had the effect
desired by Sudan's government. The farmers were infuriated, activists
attacked a police station. The response from Sudan's government was
to unleash the Janjaweed militias for a full scale genocide of the
Darfurians.
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi,
Rohingyas, Rakhine State, Bangladesh,
Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Sarin gas, chlorine gas, Russia,
Cameroon, Francophone, Anglophone, Southern Cameroons, Paul Biya,
Sudan, Darfur, Ban Ki-Moon, Janjaweed Militias
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Genocide of Rohingyas in Burma (Myanmar) appears to be almost complete
- Syria, Cameroon, Sudan Darfur genocides follow the same pattern
****
**** Genocide of Rohingyas in Burma (Myanmar) appears to be almost complete
****
6,000 acres of Bangladesh land, valued at $86.67 million, have been deforested to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees. (United News of Bangladesh)
If a government wants to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing against
an ethnic or religious population, then the old ways that our
grandfathers' generations used are no longer practical. Sending
people to concentration camps and setting up an elaborate
extermination system is way too expensive these days. And starving an
entire population, as Stalin did to the Ukrainians in the 1930s and
Mao did to the Chinese in the Great Leap Forward, could not be kept
hidden from the global media, as it was in those days.
Today's generations of genocidal leaders have new, modern ways for a
government to commit genocide now, and we've seen them practiced in
Syria, Chechnya, Cameroon, and elsewhere. The basic technique is to
make up some excuse to selectively target members of the group to be
exterminated with bombs, missiles, jailings, rape, torture and
slaughter, saying that the people being targeted are ordinary
criminals. Then when activists in the target group do something in
retaliation, then the government can declare the entire target ethnic
group to be terrorists, including women and children, and use massive
force to kill as many of them as possible, and force the rest to flee
to other countries.
These new techniques appear to be spectacularly successful in Myanmar
(Burma).
Since 2011, Burma's mostly Buddhist security forces have been
committing mass atrocities on mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingyas living in
Rakhine State, in what the United Nations says is "a textbook example
of ethnic cleansing," and which some Western governments are calling
genocide. The atrocities by Buddhist security forces include gang
rape, violent torture, execution-style killings and the razing of
entire villages, in a scorched earth campaign.
In August of last year, the Buddhist security forces got the excuse
that they wanted, when a group of activists calling themselves the
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and armed with machetes killed
several Burmese security forces in attacks against 30 Burmese police
outputs. Using this attack as an excuse, the Burmese army began
conducting massive slaughter and atrocities against the Rohingyas,
causing hundreds of thousands to flee across the border into
Bangladesh.
Today, there are about 700,000 Rohingyas living in refugee camps in
Bangladesh -- the world's largest population of stateless people, not
citizens of Burma, not citizens of Bangladesh.
The Buddhist army in Burma burned down Rohingya villages as part of
the atrocities, and after the population left, the army bulldozed the
villages. This was a purposeful act to make it impossible for the
Rohingyas to return.
So you have these farcical situations where Burmese authorities claim
that the Rohingyas burned down their own villages, or even bulldozed
them.
However, in September of last year, BBC reporter Jonathan Head was on
a trip through Rakhine state sponsored by Burma's government. The
reporters were closely monitored by Burmese minders, but he happened
to see smoke rising through the trees and was able to escape his
minder and arrive at the village. He actually interviewed the Buddhists who were burning down the village,
who said that they were helped by the Burmese police. He
was able to see one house after another go up in flames, as the
Buddhists burned them down.
It was really a pathetic sight. And yet we hear from Burmese
officials that the Rohingyas burned down their own villages, and
mainstream media reports dutifully report this as if it were some kind
of reality. That's how far the farce of fake news has gone today.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel prize winner, has played an important
role, a kind of 21st century Hitler. She sweetly tells reporters,
"Oh, it's not so bad" or "No that's wrong, it isn't ethnic cleansing,"
and so Adolf Aung San Suu Kyi Hitler is just part of the genocide
farce. She previously spent several decades under arrest by the army,
but today it seems that the reason they let her go is because she
promised to support the genocide.
Bangladesh and the international community are demanding that the
Rohingyas be permitted to return to their homes in Burma. But of
course that's impossible, since the homes have been burned down and
bulldozed.
In fact, Human Rights Watch has been interviewing Rohingyas who are
newly arrived in Bangladesh. They report that the Buddhist security
forces in Burma are still raping, torturing, mutilating, and killing
Rohingyas.
So the Burmese genocide and ethnic cleansing has been wildly
successful. They "cleansed" the area of hundreds of thousands of
Rohingyas, who will no longer be around to ignore them. It's the
modern way of doing things, and the results speak for themselves.
Reuters and United News of Bangladesh and Dhaka Tribune and Economist
Related Articles:
- Europe and North America overwhelmed by growing migration crisis (21-Jun-2018)
- Devastating UN report on Burma shows scale of ghastly atrocities by Buddhists targeting Muslim Rohingyas (04-Feb-2017)
- Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht (05-Apr-2013)
- Generational history of Burma (Myanmar) (26-Sep-2007)
- Burma's (Myanmar's) leaders may be inspired by Pol Pot's Cambodian 'Killing Fields' genocide (29-Sep-2017)
****
**** Syria, Cameroon, Sudan Darfur genocides follow the same pattern
****
Over the past few years, we've reported Generational Dynamics analyses
of countries following exactly the same kind of pattern. The
government targets an ethnic or religious population with rape,
torture, jailings or other violence, in order to provoke some kind of
violent reponse, even an extremely minor one. Once that happens, the
government declares the entire population to be terrorists, and
launches full scale genocide and ethnic cleansing.
After peaceful protests began in Syria in 2011, the country's
president Bashar al-Assad launched air attacks on women and children
in schools and markets. Once there was a violent reaction, al-Assad
could do what he wanted. He began by massacring thousands of innocent
women and children in a Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia in August
2011. He used missiles and barrel bombs, including Sarin gas and
chlorine gas, to kill his hated Sunni enemies, and to destroy their
homes, markets, hospitals and schools. In 2015, Russia's president
Vladimir Putin joined in with his "Grozny strategy," where warplanes
attack hospitals, schools and markets with the objective of creating
millions of refugees, who can then be attacked while they're out in
the open. Between the two of them, al-Assad and Putin have destroyed
and flattened villages and cities, and has forced millions of innocent
Syrian civilians to flee the violence into Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq,
Turkey and Europe. There are six million internally displaced refugees
in Syria, and five million that have fled to other countries, with 3.5
million in Turkey, almost one million in Lebanon, another million in
Iraq and Jordan, and over a million in Europe.
Then, to complete the ethnic cleansing, al-Assad in April passed "Law
#10," which requires anyone wishing to return to Syria to provide
paperwork immediately proving ownership of his or her property. The
obvious intent is to make it impossible for these millions of people
to return to their homes.
In Cameroon, the Francophone (French-speaking) government has used
extremely repressive measures to marginalize the Anglophone
(English-speaking) population in the region known as the Southern
Cameroons. These government atrocities began in November 2016,
when the Francophone
(French-speaking) Cameroon government security forces began beating
and killing peaceful anti-government demonstrators in the South
Cameroons, the Anglophone (English-speaking) regions of Cameroon. The
demonstrators were protesting systematic bias, discrimination and
marginalization towards Anglophones by the Francophone government.
The government got what it wanted in November 2016, when Anglophone
Cameroonians began peaceful protests. The Francophone security forces
began violently attacking Anglophone protesters. In September of last
year, activist separatists began using small bombs to target local
security forces.
The government announced that "President Paul Biya has declared war on
these terrorists who seek secession." In the increasingly violent
Francophone government crackdown that followed, hundreds of people
were arrested, and helicopter gunships were used to fire on innocent
civilians and kill them. At least 5,000 people have fled across the
border to neighboring Nigeria to escape the violence.
Back in 2006, I wrote a generational analysis of the genocide in
Darfur, Sudan, following the statement by UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-Moon, that the Darfur genocide was caused by global warming,
and therefore by America and Europe.
That fatuous reasoning led me to write an extensive generational
analysis of what happened in Darfur, starting in the 1970s and
continuing forward. That analysis is still correct, but I now realize
that a part of it is in exactly the same pattern we've been talking
about in Burma, Syria and Cameroon.
In April 2002, a Darfurian farmer complained to the local authorities
that they were being harassed by a local herder militia group.
Instead of listening, the farmers were jailed. This had the effect
desired by Sudan's government. The farmers were infuriated, activists
attacked a police station. The response from Sudan's government was
to unleash the Janjaweed militias for a full scale genocide of the
Darfurians.
Related Articles
- Russia demands that US and EU pay to rebuild Syria (23-Aug-2018)
- Cameroon's English-speaking provinces on the verge of full-scale violence (04-Dec-2017)
- Viral video shows Francophone Cameroon soldiers killing women and children (13-Jul-2018)
- Ban Ki Moon blames Darfur genocide on global warming (19-Jun-2007)
- United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur Sudan to be cut almost in half (16-Jun-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi,
Rohingyas, Rakhine State, Bangladesh,
Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Sarin gas, chlorine gas, Russia,
Cameroon, Francophone, Anglophone, Southern Cameroons, Paul Biya,
Sudan, Darfur, Ban Ki-Moon, Janjaweed Militias
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